The Lecturers
Dr. Barbara Tepa Lupack is former professor of English at St. John’s University and Wayne State College, academic dean at SUNY, and Fulbright Professor of American Literature in Poland and in France. Recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including the Helm Fellowship at Indiana University and the Senior Scholar Fellowship at the Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies, she is author or editor of more than twenty-five books, including Richard E. Norman and Race Filmmaking (Indiana University Press, 2013) and Silent Serial Sensations: The Wharton Brothers and the Magic of Early Cinema (Cornell University Press, 2020).
A business consultant and film historian, Jim Loperfido is the past Board Chair and CEO of the Syracuse International Film Festival. Loperfido has overseen a number of independent film and video production entities and lobbied on behalf of the entertainment industry in Washington, D.C. He has also written on a number of film topics, including the Wharton Brothers in Ithaca, Carlyle Blackwell, and a compendium of Central New York films.
Making Noise About Silent Film Lecture Series Lecture #2: “From Silents to Talking Pictures”
Denise N. Green
Dr. Denise N. Green is Associate Professor in the Department of Fiber Science and Apparel Design at Cornell University and Director of the Cornell Fashion and Textile Collection. Recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, and the Cornell Council for the Arts, she has authored numerous journal articles and book chapters; and she is co-author of Fashion and Cultural Studies. As a designer and fashion anthropologist, she uses creative and traditional qualitative research methods to study social, cultural, historical, and aesthetic aspects of fashion. Her work has received media attention in major publications, including CNN, Fox News, The Washington Times, and Newsday.
Ken Fox is the Head of Library and Archives at the Richard and Ronay Menschel Library at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York. Formerly the associate editor of The Motion Picture Guide and a film reviewer for TV Guide, he is a graduate of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation and holds a master's degree in Information Science from the State University of New York at Albany.
Making Noise About Silent Film Lecture Series Lecture #4: “From Nickelodeon to Movie Palace: The Phenomenon of Early Cinema as Mass Entertainment” (Coming Soon)
